melodrama /melˈō-drä-mə or -dräˈmə/, also (now rare) melodrame /-dräm/

1. A kind of romantic and sensational drama, crude, sentimental, and conventional, involving poetic justice and happy endings
2. A film or play that is excessively sensational, emotional, etc
3. A play with musical accompaniment to the action and spoken dialogue, with or without songs (obsolete)
4. Excessively dramatic behaviour

melodramatˈic /-drə-matˈik/ adjective

1. Of the nature of melodrama
2. Overstrained
3. Sensational

melodramatˈically adverb

melodramatˈics plural noun

Melodramatic behaviour

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